Sentence examples for firm sheets from inspiring English sources

Muscles inserted on the fibres form subepithelial complexes in many invertebrates; and vertebrate muscles are often inserted on firm sheets of connective tissue (fascia) deep in the body that are also formed by these fibres.

All profits have gone into improving firms' balance sheets.

A second reason to hope that a recession need not be deep is that firms' balance sheets are in better shape than a decade ago.

"Although firms' balance sheets were generally strong, these uncertainties had led them to be particularly cautious and to remain reluctant to hire or expand capacity".

In fact, literally billions of dollars have been conjured on to firms' balance sheets and profit and loss accounts in recent years, flattering reported earnings.

Depressed commercial land prices belie the creative maths on firms' balance sheets, and threaten the solvency of the banks that have lent to them.

The regulation will also force Europe's financial institutions to comply with more rigorous accountancy standards known as Basel III, which include holding more funds in reserves and cutting riskier assets from firms' balance sheets.

After regular checks on firms' balance sheets since 2010, the banking authority said on Thursday that the next so-called stress test on institutions' capital reserves would take place in 2013.

The revision highlights the havoc the soaring yen is wreaking on Japanese firms' balance sheets: Honda reckons that every ¥1 fall in the dollar wipes ¥20bn from its operating profit.

Mooted new accounting rules may increase the size of pension liabilities on firms' balance sheets, and other proposals could exacerbate the effect of swings in the value of stocks and bonds.The third main reason for the explosion in pension buy-outs is a sharp fall in the fee that insurers are charging to take on liabilities.

Their obliviousness is half credible; they may not have understood, or wanted to understand, the assets and the risks that lurked on (and off) their firms' balance sheets; but the potential for catastrophe was clear to see, for all who had eyes to see it, and men like Fuld and Sullivan were paid tens of millions of dollars to have or hire such eyes.